The Lost Sisterhood Quotes

“Only weak men want women to be weak.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“We are the Amazons" said Myrina."We are the killers of beasts and men. Wild ourselves, we inhabit the wild places. Freedom courses in our blood, and death whispers at the tip of our arrows. We fear nothing, fear runs from us. Try to stop us, and you will feel our rage.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“It is madness. But sometimes, madness is the only path forward.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“If you must, go and frolic with a herdsman under a starry, sky, but do not attempt to share his daylight. For the sun works on men as an elixir- it blears their eyes to the worth of women and makes them dare to think they should rule over us.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“To me, there is only one God. An unnamed presence we'll never understand. Everything else is human politics. It was human beings who wrote the holy books, and human beings who made all the rules and rituals. In other words, it is human beings who turn life into hell. So yes'--he picked up his wine glass--'I try to live by the spirit of God, but not by the rules, because rules are made by man, and man is nothing but a fatally conceited flea on the mammoth of Creation.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“Knowledge can be a dangerous thing—” “Not as dangerous as ignorance.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“Never give up. Goodness will always outrun evil in the end.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“As you say, nature taunts us with our weaknesses.
Myrina took Klito by the shoulders, 'It is not a taunt, but a challenge.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“I will say to you what the scientists say about the small particles in the universe: I can't show you where they are, I can only show you where they were.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“So now you know why I think all talk of borders and colors and nationalities is absurd. People try to pin you down on a map and paint you a certain color to make everything simple. But the world is far from simple, and intelligent human beings don't like to be pinned down and painted by some hand in the sky, whether it belongs to a god, a priest, or a politician.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“Remember: women may not be too weak
To strike a blow.
-Sophocles, Electra”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“I don’t know where I will be when you read this, but if I can, I will find you and whisper in your ear. The first thing I will whisper is this: Never give up. Goodness will always outrun evil in the end.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“Paris shook his head."Do you think I would teach just anyone to fight me to the death? I want you to be my wife. My one and only wife.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“But are you not fond of me?" Paris looked up, his eyes full of reproach."Fond of you? Myrina you are my queen. I want you more than I want life itself.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“Courage has no age.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“He did not speak; merely looked at her with an expression she had seen traces of before but never fully understood until that moment. It was more apology than accusation---a dark stare of acknowledgment that told her he had long since seen his own fate in her actions, and had long since ceased to hold her responsible.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“ask yourself this: Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable—those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic … or those who have learned to master life without?”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“Only kings are put in writing, you know. Kings and heroes. The rest of us are but fading echoes in the valley of eternity.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“You think you are stronger than Fate? We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“What’s rule number two?” Granny stopped, her hands on the back of a chair, and looked straight at me. “Always make sure,” she said, slowly, to ensure I paid attention, “that they underestimate you. That is the key.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“Why must a woman always surrender? I am not prey!"
"No I am. Your arrow struck me long ago." Paris took her hand and placed it on his chest."Right here. And every time I try to pull it out." He used her hand to demonstrate. "You force it back in.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“Fear not! I would rather tear the heart from your bosom than take your bow, for I believe you would miss it less.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“My consolation--- is that, in one short month, you gave Paris more love than most people find in a lifetime. He was as happy as a man could be, he told me so himself. No grumpy old age for him, wondering why the pleasures of the world had passed him by. Although young, he had his fill, and he knew it.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“But then, as Myrina knew only too well, it is the loss of hope that kills the prey---the loss of will to keep struggling.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“Neeta showed us there can be as much virtue in the things we do not do as on those we do.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“Exceptions are the exceptions, and finds are like ants; whenever you see one, you may be sure there are twenty.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood